April 2011
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“UbuWeb is as much about the legal and social ramifications of its self-created...”
– Happy fifteenth birthday, Ubuweb. A roiling call to action by Ubu leader Kenneth Goldsmith, published on the Poetry Foundation’s website today.
Apr 27th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 25th
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“The showplace of this literary confusion is the newspaper. Its content is...”
– I’m the first to advocate for the reading of primary texts (fully, footnotes and all); I’m also one to caution against the excerpting and/or displacing of said texts out of context. So, go. Go download Walter Benjamin’s The Author as Producer (this version ran in the New Left...
Apr 24th
“It’s about divided attention as a new strategy of attention. I’m not being a...”
– Frieze Magazine | Comment | Kenneth Goldsmith Tomorrow Museum/Rhizome editor Joanne McNeil’s interview with Ubuweb founder Kenneth Goldsmith, published on 4/20/2011, Frieze.com
Apr 22nd
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Apr 21st
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WatchWatch
Sleeping Soldiers (2009) is the single-screen version of a work made by photographer and director Tim Hetherington who was killed in Misurata, Libya, yesterday while documenting the conflict there. The first version of this work was made in 2007-8 while Hetherington was following a platoon of US Airborne Infantry based in the Korengal Valley of Eastern Afghanistan; an original, three-screen...
Apr 21st
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Apr 18th
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Goodbye to All That
Who Cares? What Knowledge is being produced here? Such were the first two lines of inquiry posited to me during graduate school and thus dutifully scrawled atop the distinctly Marxist syllabus I recently unearthed while sorting through the endless dump of books, notebooks, papers, folders, and other printed ephemera that I can’t quite seem to shred into oblivion, no matter how many years...
Apr 14th
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Electronic Literature Directory →
Useful! “The Electronic Literature Directory is a resource for readers and writers of born-digital literature. Created by the Electronic Literature Organization, it provides an extensive database listing electronic works, their authors, and their publishers. The descriptive entries are drafted by a community of e-lit authors who also tag each work and identify the techniques used in its...
Apr 6th